Set List: Bruce Springsteen Opens With "Don't Hang Up" in Response to Trump Australian Call

Thursday was a rough day for Australia. The childish demagogue [Donald Trump] ridiculed the Prime Minister and Bruce Springsteen was embarrassed to be an American.

“We stand before you embarrassed Americans tonight. This was a song from 1965 by The Onions. We are gonna use it to send a letter back home,” Springsteen said as he came on stage before launching into his first song, a cover of the Orlon's 1965 hit Don’t Hang Up.

On a day where Bannon’s bitch is reported to have hung up on Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in a ‘cruel vs crueler’ discussion of refugees, the message in the opening lyrics of the song to the child leader of the USA were “Don’t hang up (no, no)/ Oh don’t you do it now, don’t hang up (no, no)/ Don’t hang up like you always do/ I know you think our love is true/ I’ll explain the facts to you, don’t hang up.”

For the next song, American Land, Springsteen said “We come from a land of immigrants! This is an immigrant song,”

It was all Bruce needed to say for the night. The rest of the show, all three hours of it, was back to back classics with next to no banter. He hardly uttered another word the other night, not did he need too.

Steve Van Zandt tackled the issue on Twitter. “Australia is, was, and always will be one of the USA’s best friends and closest allies. Apologies for today’s temporary embarrassment”.

Australia is, was, and always will be one of the USA's best friends and closest allies. Apologies for today's temporary embarrassment.